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A court in Iraklion yesterday cleared a 21-year-old British woman charged with killing her newborn son shortly after giving birth in a Cretan hotel room in July last year.

Another seven people were diagnosed with swine flu in Greece yesterday, bringing the number of those afflicted with the virus to 30, health authorities said.

Bill envisaging tough sentences to be submitted on Monday A bill that introduces tougher sentences for those committing crimes while their faces are covered, is due to be tabled in Parliament on Monday.

TIBET: London, 16 A- According to reports from Kalimpong, India, pitched battles have broken out between Tibetan and Chinese troops 250 kilometers southwest of Lhasa near the main road to the capital in a highland area held by the rebels.

Iraklion Mayor Yiannis Kourakis reveals Aegean AirlinesA' new Airbus A320 yesterday, named after the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis.

MINOAN International College will award several academic scholarships for the academic year 2009 - 2010, to gifted candidates who wish to study business or hospitality and tourism management at MIC.

Thanasis Kokkinoulis, a trade unionist from Larissa, likes to tell people that he urges youngsters to remain in the countryside and become farmers.

Cerebral Cortex Advance Access originally published online on July 18, 2008 Cerebral Cortex 2009 19 :624-639; doi:10.1093/cercor/bhn116 1 Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health ...

Farmers' mobilizations continued on Wednesday throughout the country with roadblocks and protests.

Geography Area: 131,957 sq. km. . Major cities: Capital --Athens. Greater Athens , municipality of Athens , Greater Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki , Piraeus , Greater Piraeus , Patras , Iraklion , Larissa .

Drivers in various parts of the country, including Drama, Serres, Pella, Kilkis, Xanthi, Kastoria, Florina, Kozani as well as areas of central Greece were advised to put snow chains on their tires before ...

Anarchy is a dead Greek fag! The 15 or 16-year-old shot dead by police in Athens on Saturday December 6 has been named in reports as being Andreas Grigoropoulos.